According to a Jesuit theologian writing in today's NYT, although schadenfreude or the tendency to feel good when told of others' misfortune is a natural human reaction, it is not healthy. He was referring to some people's rejoicing or at least celebrating the deaths of anti vaxxers in the midst of the Covid pandemic.
Personally, I feel pity for the average Joe or Joan among us who dies because they believed a media celebrity who advised against getting the shot. Many of these unfortunates get their information from compromised sources who either have a political axe to grind or who are grifting on the pandemic. While they may be guilty of bad judgement, in most cases the truly believe vaccine conspiracy theories.
However, I positively gloat when a public figure who peddles these wack job theories as truth dies of Covid. If RFK jr. was rushed to an ER and choked out his last breath in agony, I would light a candle at the nearest Catholic church in celebration. Hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths during the pandemic can be laid at the feet of men like RFK jr. If i had an immortal soul to worry about, I would probably be upset at that reaction. As it is, schadenfreude is less than what these amoral a..holes deserve.
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